Of all the complaints made about Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, it's rare that you ever see anyone criticising Kevin Spacey's take on Lex Luthor. Now, the House of Cards star shares his thoughts on Jesse Eisenberg taking on the role in Batman Vs. Superman!

Not everyone was overly pleased with Warner Bros. and Zack Snyder's decision to choose The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor for 2016's Batman Vs. Superman, but now another actor who has played the character shares his thoughts on the controversial casting decision. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Kevin Space had this today say in their latest issue. "First of all, I think [Jesse Eisenberg] is a remarkable actor. He's just going to fucking own it. I think it's a great idea and I wish him the best with it." However, it sounds as if we shouldn't expect to see Spacey taking on another comic book movie role any time soon, as he added: "But now I want to explore different terrain. I wrote Woody Allen a letter last year, saying I'd be keen to do something with him. And he wrote back, very charmingly, so I'm on the list now! I set him up with a Netflix subscription too, but I don't know if he's used it. So, yeah, it would be great if that happened. I'm going to write to Scorsese. There are a lot of directors I need to get letters out to..."

He played a great Lex. And to be honest, no famous actor is going to come out to say anything blatantly negative about Jesse playing Lex. It would do more harm than good for the sake of their careers. You can post any actors thoughts on the decision, but they won't be honest about their feelings until the movie is done and over with...Hopefully Jesse can change some minds with his performance. If he sucks, people will say, "I knew it all along but didn't admit it." If he's great, people will say, "I knew he'd be great! I told you!"

This just in: Grif is currently traveling the world, learning the deadliest martial arts in the world. He's learning to use theatricality and deception to appear to be more than a man, to be a symbol. Unfortunately, he has no interest in altruism and could give a [frick] about humanity, he's doing this so that he can hunt down and eliminate Jesse Eisenberg.

DVonShakari, you're making no sense. It was primarily the writing and direction at fault in MOS. Actors do what they're told, taking liberties only when allowed to do so generally. Routh didn't have quite the physical look for Superman the way Cavill does.

In a serious, fresh Superman movie Spacey could have been a great, great Lex. Sadly they decided to cast him in the wannabe-Donner-sequel. Hackman's Lex is one of my least favourite incarnations of the character.

I have to keep looking up his name. I assume people are spelling it right, then somebody spells it differently. Here it is: Henry CavillNotice everybody, no E at the end.And Brandon Routh, also no E at the end.

Definition of 'Circle hits/gets the square': When someone answers a question correctly or says something that you especially agree with. May be referred to as 'And circle gets the square', or 'And circle hits the square.'

I personally favor the latter.

This is for those of you who haven't been quite understanding what I've been saying.

Yeah basically these actors, when they hear the question "what do you think of this actor for that character?" they're really hearing "Do you want be perceived as a dick and say something bad about this actor?"

And both Spacey and Hackman were playing down-and-out Lex's, which was, again, stupid, WB. And now they'll be fixing at least that about Lex, but now he'll be too young and not really look right at all. I keep saying, wtf..

Lex is one of those characters they could have gone many ways with casting and I'd have been fine. But as usual, they went too far, for what??? I mean, this casting makes no sense. Seems to be a blatant disrespect for all source material. As if change for the sake of change is exactly the intention.

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